Qingben beauty

Chapter 13 That day everything changed!

With that pot in hand, Gu Mingyuan looked at the corner, and stopped picking it up. He asked me to clean it up, and then rode back on a flatbed.

Instead of going straight home, we went to a scrap yard first.

The metal, newspaper cardboard and some books that Gu Mingyuan didn't want were all sold to that buying station.

Gu Mingyuan sold those things for 13 yuan.

I stared wide-eyed at Gu Mingyuan counting the money.

I also rummaged through the garbage for more than a month, but I never knew that there were things that could sell for so much money!

Gu Mingyuan looked back at me, put the money in his pocket, let me get into the car, rode back on the car, and said, "Today's harvest is good, I'll buy some meat, and I'll fry some chili fried meat for you when I go back."

meat!
I couldn't think of anything else in my head, and my saliva flowed down uncontrollably.

Gu Mingyuan bought five catties of rice and cut half a catty of meat.

That night, for the first time, I opened my stomach to eat white rice and meat. Gu Mingyuan didn't eat a single bite of the pot of meat and gave it to me.

that delicious...

I will never forget it in my life.

Of course, there is one more thing that I will never forget in my life.

What Gu Mingyuan fried was chili fried pork!

chili!

My hometown also eats chili, but there is no such way to eat it!
That night, in addition to eating three big bowls of rice and a big bowl of chili fried pork, I also drank a jar of water!

The water here for Gu Mingyuan is a water pipe taken from a neighbor's house. The faucet is in the corner, and there is something like a disc on the water pipe.

Gu Mingyuan told me that it is a water meter, which is used to calculate how much water is used, and then the water fee should be paid according to the amount on it.

It's the first time I've heard that water has to be charged!

In our village, you can use the streams and rivers as you like!
But in this way, I also understand why those faucets have to be locked, because even if I am in a hurry, I will only turn it on and forget to turn it off.

The water in the faucet here is not always available at Gu Mingyuan, and it will only flow for two hours at night. Therefore, there is a large water tank under the faucet, and after Gu Mingyuan boils the water, he will pour it into a small tank next to it. If you want to drink, just pour it out from the small jar.

After eating that day, Gu Mingyuan said to me while going to boil water: "Today is the first time, let you eat first, remember later, the first thing after coming back is to take a shower and change clothes, and then eat after washing, because, For human beings, eating is the most sacred thing. With piety and reverence, thank God for the sunshine and rain, thank the farmers for their hard work, and thank us for being able to buy these foods. In this way, you will feel that when you eat tasty."

At that time, I couldn't understand the meaning of his words at all, and I just wanted to take a bath as soon as possible.

It is the greatest happiness for me to eat and drink enough, take a bath and sleep in a warm bed.

However, Gu Mingyuan let me enjoy the happiness of washing with hot water in the curtain, but didn't let me enjoy the happiness of sleeping.

He cleaned up the dining table, spread a few clean newspapers on it, and then took the half-empty notebook and a pen with hair.

Gu Mingyuan said that he wanted to teach me how to read and write.

Literacy and writing...

At that time, I looked at him like a fool, and when he asked me with a smile if I was unwilling, I quickly said loudly: "I am willing!"

Read and write!

Of course I would, I would love it very much!
When I was in the village, I knew that grandparents treated my father and uncle completely differently, because my uncle can read and is the number one scholar in the village population, and he will be very promising in the future!

And when I watched my friends of the same age in the village go to school with their schoolbags on their backs, I was even more envious and jealous.

And for children like Liu Ergunzi in the village who can go to school but play truant every day, I have hatred, and I hate why I want to study so much but have no chance.

Now, even if I don't go to school, but Gu Mingyuan is willing to teach me, how could I not want to!
Gu Mingyuan taught me from the simplest one, two, three, and four. After he finished writing stroke by stroke, he asked me to follow behind and write by myself, and let me read aloud while writing.

After teaching me the key points, Gu Mingyuan asked me to practice by myself. While staring at the gestures I wrote in my writing posture, he took out the letters, first looked at the colorful pieces of paper pasted on the envelope, and then flipped through the inside .

When he comes across a piece of paper he likes, he will cut it out with scissors, and soak it in a basin of water. If he sees that it is useless, he throws it into a paper bag, which is used for paper products sold tomorrow. .

Sometimes, he would leave the entire letter, carefully smoothed, pressed, and placed in a large wooden box.

After opening the letters, he went to sort out the books he brought back, sort them into categories, and put them away on his big bookshelf.

I stayed here with Gu Mingyuan.

Unless it is raining and snowing heavily, we will go to the garbage station to search every day. Except for those two, sometimes we will go to other places to search other people's things. If there are not many things that day, Gu Mingyuan will take me around the streets Yes, look for some garbage that people throw away randomly. Occasionally, if you are lucky, you can also meet someone moving, and there will be a lot of waste thrown out, and even because the entire old building is going to be demolished, the people inside will move collectively, and the outside will be discarded. Everything has become like a hill.

This time is when we are happiest.

The things we can pick up are different every day, sometimes there are more, sometimes less, when there are more, Gu Mingyuan can sell them for two or thirty yuan, and when there are less, it is only two or three yuan.

However, these incomes are enough for Gu Mingyuan to pay the rent, utilities and meals for the two of us. Occasionally, if there is more, he will buy me some cheap clothes.

When we come back every day, we will take a shower first, then eat, and then Gu Mingyuan will teach me characters and mathematics.

When Gu Mingyuan collected stamps, letters, books, and teapots (Gu Mingyuan said they were antiques) more and more.

I can read more and more characters, and I'm good at math. On a few occasions, I can find out that the family who collects waste products made a wrong calculation.

Then, Gu Mingyuan started to let me read books, those books on his bookshelf.

The books on Gu Mingyuan's bookshelf are very miscellaneous, including novels, essays, and geographical travel notes, but the most are ancient books.

I don't know how many years of history it is, but it is full of traditional characters that I spent twice as long learning, or ancient books lined up vertically.

Gu Mingyuan said that those are the books of our ancestors, and they are the most precious cultural relics. Unfortunately, many people now throw them away as waste.

Those books are very interesting. Although some of them are very jerky, after Gu Mingyuan's explanation, I can basically understand them.

Once I found a book, and the drawing in it was similar to a broken bowl that Gu Mingyuan found a few days ago. I asked Gu Mingyuan.

Gu Mingyuan told me that it was Yao porcelain, a famous porcelain produced in the Northern Song Dynasty.

After that, Gu Mingyuan began to teach me to distinguish the broken bowls and jars he picked up.

Only then did I know that the green bowl with a big gap in it where I ate was called blue and white porcelain, and the small jar where I could drink the whole jar of water in one go was originally a wine pot.

In such a flash, it was six years.

In the autumn when I was 13 years old, Gu Mingyuan suddenly fell down.

After we sold the waste products of the day, I was riding a scooter, and Gu Mingyuan was sitting on the scooter. When the two of us were discussing whether to buy a catty of eggs, Gu Mingyuan suddenly fell from the car and fell to the ground.

He never got up again.

(End of this chapter)